The experts’ concerns are laid bare in a book of essays called Inventing Transgender Children And Young People. It challenges what it calls the UK’s ‘dangerous’ transgender ideology.
One of the NHS gender specialists said: ‘I keep thinking about all of the children, adolescents and families who are being harmed by the one-dimensional discussion and the attack on truth and on thinking and on what we know about adolescent well-being.’
Another added: ‘I’m angry with all the grown-ups, all the clever people, all the thoughtful people, who are letting this happen.’ One of the issues causing ‘turmoil’ at the clinic is the prospect that children are being rendered infertile by the medication prescribed for them.
Allan Josephson: Gender Activists Exploit Kids
Allan M. Josephson is a distinguished psychiatrist who, since 2003, has transformed the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology at the University of Louisville from a struggling department to a nationally acclaimed program. In the fall of 2017 he appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation and shared his professional opinion on the medicalization of gender-confused youth. The university responded by demoting him and then effectively firing him.
AJ: . . .The lack of thorough evaluation is a huge problem. Most clinicians or most places won’t say that they don’t evaluate people, but I’ve sat through some situations where it was stunning, the cursory nature of the evaluation, and then after that time the patient gets hormones. I mean, it is, it is a knee-jerk response in many clinics, and I think you used the word “appropriate” in “evaluation.” What is going on? Why should a child declare that there’s something that they’re biologically not? That’s a fascinating intellectual question in what is going on here. But there’s a shutdown of any investigative kind of thinking. That’s a real problem. . . .
There are now over 50 gender clinics in the United States. These were unheard of seven or eight years ago. And they’re set up real, almost like — if I may use a crude analogy — a restaurant where a person comes in and orders a treatment. Doctors have always said — you give me the symptoms, and I’ll help you with what I think is going on for the diagnosis. But that basic process is being short-circuited by a “this is my diagnosis; this is what I have” approach. And literally they’re asking for hormones. And amazingly, doctors are going along with it in many cases. I think it’s a travesty of our profession.
Source: Allan Josephson: Gender Activists Exploit Kids | National Review
Ukrainian Parliament Approves Forced Chemical Castration Of Pedophiles
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has adopted a law allowing the forcible chemical castration of pedophiles.
Along with forced chemical castration, the new law also envisions up to 15 years in prison for raping minors and up to five years in prison for lurid acts involving minors.
Forced chemical castration of pedophiles is legal in many countries, including Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.
In Russia, a 2012 law allows chemical castration of convicts if they consent to have it.
Source: Ukrainian Parliament Approves Forced Chemical Castration Of Pedophiles
Rape cases out at risk by under-trained forensic witnesses
One of the nation’s top forensic physicians has told The New Daily that doctors in hospitals are refusing to get involved with sexual assault cases because they don’t want to get dragged into the justice system.
But the bigger issue is the disconnect between being legally qualified to gather forensic evidence and being fully capable of doing an adequate job.
Source: Rape cases out at risk by under-trained forensic witnesses
Queensland will abolish rape defence ‘loophole’ if law reform experts recommend it
The Attorney-General is referring the mistake of fact defence in rape cases to the Queensland Law Reform Commission for advice on how to change it.
The 110-year-old legal defence allows an accused rapist to argue they had a mistaken but honest and reasonable belief that sex was consensual.
It has been used by defendants including repeat violent offenders and those who argued that a woman’s behaviour, including previous flirting or visiting a man’s home, could be taken as consent.
The Government had been reviewing the use of the contentious defence since last May, when the ABC revealed the case of “Jayne”, a woman who nearly bled to death after a sexual encounter on the Gold Coast.
Saudi Arabia to ‘ease’ male guardianship law restricting women’s travel
Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to relax its strict male guardianship laws to allow women to travel without requiring permission, in what would be the biggest reform yet to women’s rights in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Male guardianship laws related to women’s right to marry, work, leave prison and a number of other rights, however, would still be in place.
Women, even as adults, can be prevented from doing anything from travelling, marrying, renting, and working without permission.
There is even a government app that helps alert male guardians if female relatives try to check in at any of the kingdom’s airports.
Source: Saudi Arabia to ‘ease’ male guardianship law restricting women’s travel
Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma: Identity Politics and Feminism
Although the ideology of identity politics remains hegemonic in the academy and in many social institutions, a growing—and arguably necessary—body of critique has been emerging. These critiques have emanated both from the arbiters of the so-called silent majority and from those on the Left who are concerned by the displacement of class by identity and by the unremitting politics of grievance. . . .
When an icon of second-wave feminism like Germaine Greer is deplatformed because she doesn’t hold the correct opinion on something, we know that free thought and free speech are in serious danger.
Source: Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma: Identity Politics and Feminism – Areo
One in 50 prisoners identifies as transgender amid concerns inmates are attempting to secure prison perks
One in 50 male offenders in prisons are self-identifying as transgender, according to a survey by the official jail watchdog, amid concerns inmates may be attempting to secure extra perks.
The figure, the first by the watchdog, suggests there are up to 1,500 transgender inmates among the 90,000 prisoners in England and Wales, more than ten times previous estimates, and at least four times the number in the general population.
Boy, 12, allegedly raped 4-year-old girl in Malaysia after watching porn videos
BATU GAJAH, Perak: A 12-year-old boy allegedly raped a four-year-old girl three times after being influenced by porn videos he watched on a mobile phone, Malaysian police said on Tuesday (Jul 2).
The girl had been placed under the care of the boy’s mother, a babysitter. When she complained of pain in her private parts, the girl’s mother took her to the Tanjung Tualang Clinic last Friday.
Source: Boy, 12, allegedly raped 4-year-old girl in Malaysia after watching porn videos – CNA
2 Indigenous women allege they were sterilized against their will in Manitoba hospitals — one of them in 2018
Two Indigenous women say they were sterilized against their will in Manitoba hospitals, including one alleged incident that happened as recently as 2018, court documents say.
Semaganis Worme Lombard has represented more than 100 cases of Indigenous women alleging they were coerced into being sterilized by hospital staff dating back about 30 years to as recently as December 2018, said Lombard.
